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Safe and Secure: How do Refugees Experience Europe's Borders?

Document number
2852
Date
2011
Title
Safe and Secure: How do Refugees Experience Europe's Borders?
Author/publisher
Jesuit Refugee Service-Europe
Availability
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Document type(s)
Research/Study/Analysis,
Keywords
Migrant rights; Migration management; Comprehensive approach to migration; Migration policy; Restrictive migration measures, Irregular Migration, Feminization of migration, Economic migration, Labour migration, Free movement, Undocumented migrants; Undocumented labour;
Summary
In its latest report "Safe and Secure: How do Refugees Experience Europe's Borders?", the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) presents evidence that European governments actively hinder refugee arrivals. "While the ‘Arab Spring' may have ignited the democratic aspirations of North Africans, it has revealed the deep-seated aversion of EU states to give forced migrants access to asylum procedures in Europe", says Stefan Kessler, JRS Europe Senior Policy Officer and editor of their new report. JRS calls therefore on EU Member States to swiftly respond to all migrants and refugees in distress at sea and to offer access to asylum procedures to those intercepted.
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